Sorry which exact verse is that?
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Sorry which exact verse is that?
In which EXACT verses does it say God hates Gays and will put them to death? If you're going to make a HUGE statement like that, you've got to back it up with some proper knowledge, as you could imagine it's quite offensive to just tell other people what they believe.
Perhaps not from "i wrote it in myself"ipedia as well.
Perhaps not from "i wrote it in myself"ipedia as well.
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readingstockport
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It is arguable that the causes of the first world war were untimately rooted in religion due to the nature of the area and the that of both the assasins and the assisinated. But imo that is to stretch a point to blame religion for everything.
Religion has more than enough to answer for and more than enough blood on it's disgusting hands without also directly lumping the fww and the sww on to it.
clapham_gull
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There is a lot more to the story than the documentaries have had time to cover. Surprised the estranged son who campaigns against their message didn't get mentioned last night. There is also a case going through the American courts at the moment, regarding their right to free speech.
They had some verses on that page. Or were they made up on '"i wrote it in myself"ipedia' as you call it. Seriously if there are any inaccuracies in the quotes from the Bible let me know and I'll change them.
I'm not telling you what you believe BTW, I'm saying that some people, in fact many people, who are Christians believe the Bible to be the word of God and the Bible is pretty unequivocal about gays.
Some creationist poll results from the US - Poll shows belief in evolution, creationism - USATODAY.com / Poll: Creationism Trumps Evolution - CBS News / Poll: 4 in 10 Americans Believe in Creationism, Christian News, The Christian Post
There seems like quite a lot that believe in creationism (40%?). That some Christians pick and choose what to believe in the Bible seems less credible to me than the likes of the WBC who at least treat it all the same and add their own brand of peculiar madness.
Bold Seagull
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Is it unequivocal though? it's all a load of double translated scripture where one minute gays are to be put to death, next minute they too can inherit the kingdom of God etc. One word translated from the Greek means one think, translated from Latin means another.
I would say the only thing unequivocal about the bible, is that there is nothing unequivocal in the bible!
Marc1901
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This video made me LOL.
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We agree! I'd also say that the Bible has inspired good people to do great things.
Spider
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So you believe that many people who believe in God as they don't believe Science can answer everything about the world and our existence, whilst having faith in some form of afterlife, are less credible than people who insist that the entire world are wrong, sinning, damned to hell, godless beings except for their tiny number of people who alone hold the key to paradise? Not to mention the fact that they choose a deliberately antagonistic form of 'preaching' which is designed to upset as many people as possible.
Hmm...
Bold Seagull
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less credible than the WBC? how on earth are you making these conclusions, based on 2 Louis Theroux documentaries?
Bold Seagull
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Good, I can sleep easy! You are right, and of course, ...bad people will always do bad things, but only religion can make good people do bad things...
Of course I'm going to be accused of all sorts of (horrible) things here, but yes I do think that those that believe wholesale in the Bible have more consistency in their religion than those that select to pick and choose what they believe in.
'Our' God of the Old Testament IS a vengeful and jealous God and he wipes out mankind with a flood because he sees them as corrupt. Saying then that a tsunami has been sent by God is repugnant to me, but consistent at least to the word of the Bible.
That said, please don't for one second say that I condone or even understand these unbelievably awful people or that I am attacking those that have moderate Christian beliefs - I'm not. I'm only saying that I can understand the all or nothing approach to Christian belief more than I can someone who doesn't believe in creationism, but does believe in the resurrection say.
clapham_gull
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Poverty, alcohol, drugs, mental illness ?
clapham_gull
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So what you saying is that at least religious fundamentalist/extremists are consistent ?
No, I'm not. Plenty of people believe everything in the Bible and are not fundamentalists/extremists. Ditto the Koran and all the other religious texts.
I AM saying that a complete belief in a holy book is more understandable to me than the picking and choosing.
I AM saying that a complete belief in a holy book is more understandable to me than the picking and choosing.
Lyndhurst 14
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For some reason on a Friday night every religious looney in New York descends on the subway at Grand Central. The encouraging thing is that most commuters completely ignore them and the signs saying you’re all going to burn in hell and the world will end on May 21st – there will be more than a few embarrassed folks around on May 22nd. I accept that under the First Amendment they have the right to free speech but I just wish they would piss off somewhere else as they tend to be a distraction to some very good jazz and blues bands which congregate there as well.
Lyndhurst 14
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The Supreme Court recently upheld the right of Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals